Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn't really like school, so we'd register, then bunk off, and we would be round my mate's house making drum-and-bass mix tapes.

I loved everything about that movie [Jawbreaker]. The fashion, the friendship amongst all of us girls... it was great. We had a blast filming it, and it was really wonderful. It was a very special time.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

The Brat Pack is timeless.

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.